SCIENCE 



FRroAY, January 21, 1916 



CONTENTS 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



The Forthcoming Situation in Agricultural 

 Worh: Dr. L. H. Bailey 77 



University Segistration Statistics: John C. 

 Burg 87 



Academic Freedom amd Academic Tenure .... 92 



Scientific Notes and News 93 



University and Educational News -97 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Genetic Factors and Ensyme Reaction : Dr. 

 Richard Goldschmidt. Early Meetings of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: Wm. H. Hale 98 



Scientific Books: — 

 Meese on the Alligator and its Allies: Pro- 

 FESOE Alexander G-. Euthven 100 



Proceedings of the National Academy of 

 Sciences: Professor Edwin Bidwell Wil- 

 son 101 



Becent Progress in Verteirate FaXeontology : 

 Drs. C. R. Eastman, W. K. Gregory, W. D. 

 Matthew 103 



Special Articles: — 



A Phoma Disease of Western Wheat Grass; 

 A Fungus occurring on Wheat and Bye: Dr. 

 P. J. 'Gara 110 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section C — Chemistry: John Johnston ... 112 



The Mathematical Association of America ... 112 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 review sbould be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE FORTHCOMING SITUATION IN 

 AGRICULTURAL WORK— II' 



One year ago, at the first meeting of 

 Section M, it was my privilege to speak on 

 some of the tendencies in the great public 

 agricultural movements in the United 

 States, particularly on the educational side, 

 and to express my conviction that the proc- 

 esses set in motion by the Land-Grant Act 

 and subsequent enactments are safeguard- 

 ing the foundations of our democracy. I 

 approached my subject mostly from the 

 point of view of our present public-service 

 or public-welfare institutions for agricul- 

 ture ; I said that I should discuss the other 

 or non-public phases of the problem one 

 year hence. And now, after twelve months 

 of unrepentance, I come to resume my 

 theme. In continuing the discussion I 

 shall be obliged to reaffirm some of the posi- 

 tions that I urged a year ago. 



It is now some seven years ago when I 

 wrote in a book that there may be need of 

 a kind of agricultural work that can best 

 be done in an institution independent of 

 direct state support and not at once respon- 

 sible to popular will.^ That statement, or 

 its equivalent, had been made many times 

 theretofore in public ways. I have never 

 taken the privilege, however, to enlarge 

 upon it to any degree : this opportunity is 

 reserved for to-day. 



Fortunate it is for us that our educa- 

 tional and to a large extent our civic and 

 welfare work for agriculture have been 

 founded on public funds, thereby commit- 

 ting the state to the necessity of furthering 

 the interests of our basic industry and of 



1 Retiring vice-presidential address. Section M. 



2 "The Training of Farmers," page 225. 



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